A dispute between a Fort Wayne hospital and an insurance company over payment of medical care returned to the Court of Appeals of Indiana, which found the insurance provider’s obligation under the state’s Hospital Lien Act is not greater than its policy limits.
The Indiana Department of Health on Wednesday made major changes to its COVID-19 dashboard, which it has been using since early in the pandemic to provide the public with coronavirus-related data.
The Indiana Supreme Court issued a reversal in a case of first impression Thursday, finding that independent physician liability extends to nonhospital facilities that provide patients with health care.
Statewide hospitalizations due to COVID-19 have fallen to their lowest point since the first month of the pandemic, according to the latest figures from the Indiana State Department of Health.
Officials at Indiana’s largest hospital system said Tuesday that its hospitals have weathered the worst of the latest COVID-19 surge, although they are still treating hundreds of patients with the illness.
A woman claiming she experienced invasion of privacy after someone other than her doctor accessed her medical records and shared them with her employer did not sway the Court of Appeals of Indiana differently on its second time hearing the case.
A family physician who claims she has “31 pregnant patients” relying on her to deliver their babies is still prohibited from practicing at Ascension St. Vincent Hospital after the Southern Indiana District Court denied her motion to have her privileges reinstated while she continues to battle the medical facility’s vaccine requirement.